What Ari Shavit doesn’t understand about Palestinian children and Jews
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- Written by Ziona Snir
- Category: Opposizione israeliana
Haaretz, Sep. 14, 2016
The only Israelis that many Palestinian youngsters have seen are soldiers or settlers.
The only Jew that a child in Deheisheh or Balata knows is a soldier, who at best stands across from him with weapon drawn or, less fortuitously, is already firing a gas grenade, or rubber or lead bullet, or waking him in the dead of night and humiliating his parents, all this taking place in an environment ruled by wretched poverty and absent of hope.
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Israeli witness in Gaza: No water, no electricity and children dying unnecessarily
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- Written by Ayelett Shani
- Category: Gaza
Haaretz, Jan. 7, 2017
“Gaza is cloaked in desperation. You feel it the minute you cross the border. It’s like traveling to another world. Already at the crossing you see seriously ill people, mainly cancer patients, waiting in line in a hall. They are hoping for some compassion and permission to cross the border and receive some treatment. You go by car and see ruins, thousands of destroyed houses, factories in ruin, sewage flowing through the streets.”
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Israel confiscates trailer serving as clinic for Palestinians in West Bank
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- Written by Amira Hass
- Category: Cisgiordania
Haaretz, Dec. 20, 2016
Israel’s Civil Administration confiscated last week a trailer that Palestinians had begun using as a clinic in Al-Markaz, a small village inside Masafer Yatta, a town which in turn finds itself within a southern West Bank military firing area called Firing Zone 918.
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Palestinian suffering? Think of the Jews!
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- Written by Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Jamie Stern-Weiner, Professor Kamel Hawwash, Birmingham
- Category: Società civile palestinese
Jews for Justice for Palestianians, May 2nd, 2016
Impossible life in Gaza: Nader Obu Odeh, age 6, gathers wood from destroyed houses to make a fire, Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. The Abu Odeh family, 33 people including 21 children, fled but returned to live in the remains of their damaged house without electricity and gas. Photo by Activestills.org
By Jamie Stern-Weiner, blog
April 30, 2016
Let’s imagine for just a moment that a people was forcibly dispossessed of its homeland.
Gaza water crisis has caused irreversible damage, World Bank warns
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- Written by Amira Hass
- Category: Gaza
Haaretz, Dec. 18, 2016
while 90 percent of the inhabitants of the West Bank and 85 percent of the inhabitants of the Middle East and North Africa have access to a faucet for drinking water, only 10 percent of the 2 million or so inhabitants of Gaza can safely drink the water piped into their homes. The other 90 percent do not even associate drinking water with the simple act of turning on a tap: Their water is too saline because of seawater seepage, and too dangerous because of raw sewage or gray-water seeping into the aquifer.
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